What changes in someone's life is what matters.

For nearly 75 years, INF has been present in Nepal's most marginalised communities. The work carried out by our local partners cannot be reduced to four program categories, but it can be understood through the people whose lives it has touched.

In West Rukum, one of Nepal's most remote districts, women who once struggled to say their own names aloud are now standing in community meetings, sharing ideas, and advocating for their villages.

That shift happened because of a Project Coordinator who had spent years working in remote Nepal and wanted to bring what he'd learned back to his own community. He now leads that work through Shanti Nepal, with the same care he'd seen modelled, directed at the people he grew up alongside.

Up close, INF's impact looks like a group of committed local leaders choosing to carry transformation forward.
 
Across Nepal last year, 84% of participants in INF's community development programmes were women. 6% were people with disabilities, double the average reported by Australian NGOs, reached in part by holding Self-Help Group meetings in their own homes, where the barriers to participation were lowest.

The Zero Leprosy programme detected 300 new cases through expanded community screening. More cases found means earlier treatment, less disability, and communities closer to the end of a disease that has shaped Nepal's social margins for generations.

In May 2025, the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade visited INF's WASH project in West Rukum. The local mayor told our partners: "We have not known how to implement many of the Government recommendations, but you have shown us how to do development well."

To everyone who gives, prays, and advocates: this is what your partnership builds!